Rail Daze - Railroad Event on the Placerville Branch

Rail Daze, a major community event on the rails of the Placerville Branch will be held on May 12-13, 2012. The purpose of this festival is to raise the level of public awareness of the importance of protecting and preserving this rail corridor, considered to be the oldest railroad west of the Mississippi.

Recreational Railroad Coalition Historical Society will coordinate this railroad activity which willfeature vintage, privately owned maintenance of way rail cars (aka: speeders) and the 1914 electric streetcar which plied the streets ofSacramentomanydecades ago. Speeders will run from the Hampton Inn on Placerville Rd. and Highway 50 to Latrobe where aspeeder turning pad has been constructed.

Recreational Railroad Coalition Historical Society is co-owner of the Amador Central Railroad in Amador County as well asleaser ofthe Linden Branch of the Stockton Terminal & Eastern Railroad in San Joaquin County. Public rideswill be offered on the speeders as well as in the streetcar.

Rail Daze, a localSacramento/El Dorado County event will be held in conjunction with the National Rail Day event.

Comments

As far as I know, there is an excellent and regular service from Folsom to Latrobe throughout the summer starting last weekend in May. See www.psvrr.org for timetable. All the money they make goes back into developing the railroad. I don't know who these guys are butv looks like they are taking money away from the R.R.
Plus, the El Dorado Western R.R. are running between Diamond Springs and Shingle Springs this weekend!
I say support our local railroads - not interlopers using free access to suck us dry!